I’m a design technologist who uses the design process to ground product development in a product philosophy comprising core values and design principles.
I studied Data Science at Minerva University, so I had to learn these design skills on-the-fly at Deepcore, Softbank’s Applied AI subsidiary, and DeSci Labs, where I worked on tools for academic search, collaborative peer review and publishing research.
Since leaving the decentralized science space, I’ve shifted my attention inwards. For a year and a half, I’ve practiced meditation almost daily, and seen mindfulness grow from an interest to a philosophy of being.
I see little of the way I desire to live (in short, with presence, awareness and compassion) supported by the design of the interfaces I live by. and I want to contribute to products in service of that, beginning with pond.
Reading List
themes: slow-living and world-building, tech criticism and design ethics, media ecologies and humane interfaces.
- Stuck On The Platform by Geert Lovink. Notes here.
- Radical Technologies by Adam Greenfield
- Ways of Being by James Bridle
- maybe its not so bad by Carla Ostmann
- The User Condition by Silvio Lorusso. Notes here.
- Strangers To Ourselves by Rachel Aviv
- The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin. Notes here.
- Perfect Days by Wim Wenders
- Orality and Literacy by Walter Ong
- Can You Imagine by Sublime. Notes here.
Inspirations
- are.na, a toolkit for assembling new worlds from the scraps of old ones
- kinopio, a spatial note taking tool for visually collecting and connecting your thoughts
- Modem Works, office for design and innovation with an end date
- dan-ball Powder Game (2006), a browser-based multiplayer physics simulator